Una visita a la obra de Caballero desde la fenomenología

The search for the required image was the concept adopted by Luis Caballero to define his work at the end of the 70s, developing an artistic treatment that fostered an ambiguous interpretation of the emotions that drawn bodies could experience. This artistic treatment is manifested in the pictorial resources used by this artist to represent bodily gestures. Assuming that ambiguity is a characteristic that occurs in the understanding of something, the fact of proposing the existence of ambiguity in the corporal gestures of Caballero's work is to admit that such ambiguity is part of an observer’s interpretation, that is, gestures are not ambiguous, but rather the understanding of an observer about them. Consequently, this research project tried to revisit Caballero's work from the interpretive experience of the observer, for which it was necessary to address the relationship observer/painting as a phenomenological event, that is, reviewing the relationships that an individual establishes with an aesthetic object with which, in real life, he/she becomes related and could be aware of three manifested instances: the material object (bilk), some represented objects (bilksujet), and the constitutive aspects around representation (bildobjekt).